UDTS ATS Accreditation 2024

Standard 1: Mission and Integrity

• Standard 1: Mission and Integrity

  • 1. Mission and Integrity: Theological schools are communities of faith and learning guided by theological missions that are achieved with institutional integrity. Schools have missions appropriate to graduate theological education and to their own contexts. Missions are clearly and publicly stated, widely accepted, broadly used, regularly reviewed, and changed as needed. In achieving their missions, schools conduct their activities with institutional integrity, especially in areas related to human interactions, diversity, legal obligations, and Commission responsibilities.

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  • Mission

  • 1.1 The school’s mission is appropriate to the purposes and values of graduate theological education and to its own context and constituencies. The mission is clearly and publicly stated and articulates the school’s primary purpose(s), institutional identity, and key constituencies served. However expressed, student learning and formation are central to the school’s mission.
    

    Mission Statement (website)

  • 1.2 The school’s mission is widely accepted by key constituencies—internal and external—and is used broadly by the school to guide its institutional and educational activities, including planning, evaluation, resource allocation, and decision-making.
    

  • 1.3 The school’s mission statement is regularly reviewed by the appropriate governing body and other key leaders to ensure that it continues to reflect the school’s current realities and future hopes.
    

  • Integrity

  • 1.4 The school acts with integrity in its interactions with internal constituents (faculty, staff, students, and others) and external constituents (including the broader public). The school’s integrity is grounded in its identity and theological commitments; is demonstrated through policies and practices that highlight fairness, honesty, and accountability; and is manifested in a healthy institutional environment with effective patterns of leadership, transparency, and communications. Institutional integrity also includes how the school attends to global awareness and engagement within the context of its mission, theological commitments, and resources.
    

  • 1.5 The school acts with integrity by valuing, defining, and demonstrating diversity within the context of its mission, history, constituency, and theological commitments. The school has a publicly available stance on diversity that describes its understanding of and commitment to this membership-wide shared value, and the school uses that stance to enhance its diversity.

    Diversity Statement (Catalog, p.1)

  • 1.6 The school acts with integrity by following all applicable laws and regulations, beginning with documents that demonstrate its authority to operate and confer degrees wherever it does so. Any school that participates in US federal student aid programs meets all governmental regulations for those programs.
    

  • 1.7 The school acts with integrity in its Commission membership responsibilities by following all applicable Standards and Policies and Procedures and by responding accurately and punctually to accreditation-related requests from the Board of Commissioners.
    

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    Faculty Reflections

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    Mission Statement Reflection Forum

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    Making our Mission Known; Mon 11th Forum

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    Building an honest, fair, accountable culture; Tues 12th Forum

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    Attending to global awareness in mission, theology, resources; Wed. 13th Forum

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    Valuing diversity institutionally; Thurs 14th Forum

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